SAA
FlySaa
Saa is the national carrier of South Africa. Since the low cost airlines came into the market, such as Kulula.com, flyMango and 1Time, they have had to really lift their game in order to stay competitive. This has resulted in more on-time flights, better service and cheaper deals. However, being that Saa (www.flysaa.com) is such a massive organisation, these things do take time and as such most people still prefer to fly the budget airlines when flying domestically.
Destinations
Saa flies to all domestic locations such as durban, cape town, johannesburg, george, port elizabeth, richards bay etc. They also fly internationally to London (heathrow), europe, and that States.
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Mango
Mango Airlines
Mango Airlines is completed owned and managed by SAA. They are a low cost airline. It is the third and last budget airline in South Africa and well known for its bright orange colour.
They have been doing large advertising pushes recently and have very competitive deals. Many people have though questioned how separate they are from SAA and whether our tax money is being used to keep them afloat while the other airlines (namely 1Time) struggle with making the company profitable in its own right.
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Destinations
Mango airlines flies to and from the following destinations:
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1Time
1Time
1Time (www.1time.co.za) was not the first low cost airline in South Africam but they have managed to really dig into the market share that kulula.com had and grown the airline masively. 1Time are also the only low budget airline in SA that are not owned and run by a larger company (airline). Kulula is owned and managed by Comair (BA) and Mango is owned by SAA. However 1Time is owned by its 4 entrepreneurs who launched it. The company also makes money by having a airplane servicing section.
Destinations:
Onetime flies to and from cape town, durban, johannesburg (joburg), Richards Bay.
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Kulula
Kulula.com
Kulula is the original low cost (budget/no frills) airline. When it first launched it took the South African market by storm as South African’s had never heard of no frills air travel before. More than this there was a monopoly at the time with almost every flight being run by SAA – the national carrier. As such prices remained high and service remained low.
Once Kulula (www.kulula.com) launched that all changed. Due to their low cost set up and super low prices many more South Africans were able to fly, and those who were flying already were able to fly even more frequently. Kulula was able to offer such low prices due to the fact that they did not offer any free meals or beverages on the flight and luggage weight was also restricted.
However for such short flight times (cape town to joburg flights etc.) it was not an issue and most people were very welcoming of it, especially since it also meant that prices were so much cheaper.
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Kulula.com flies to durban, johannesburg (joburg), cape town (capetown), port elizabeth, pietermaritzberg, richards bay and bloemfontein.
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What is a low cost airline
Low Cost Airlines
These cheaper airlines first came to prominence in the US with South West Airlines and in the UK with Ryanair and EasyJet.
Then a few years later South Africa got its first real low cost airline, namely Kulula. Kulula opened up the world of flying to an entirely new demographic many of which had never flown in a plane before.
Swiftly following Kulula.com was Onetime, and then we also got Mango airlines. But what exactly is a low cost airline?
A low cost (sometimes called budget) is an airline that removes the frills from flying in order to decrease the cost. This means that whereas on a typical flight you will receive food and beverages for free, on a lowcost airline, you will need to pay for them. This is not a problem for local flights, but long haul flights would work out to be too difficult and so no budget airline as yet does long haul flights.
These cheap airlines also limit the baggage you can carry, sometimes even charging for hand luggage.
Can they take this cost cutting and revenue generation too far? Well, yes.
Look for example at Ryaniar in the UK. The inside of the place is simply covered in advertising from third parties, and there are rumours that they are apprently considering charging passengers £1 to use the toilet!
Book with our low cost airlines
Kulula.co.za
Mango Flights
1Time